Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s suggestion that Australia might move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem puts us on a slippery foreign policy slope. Photo: AAP/Mick Tsikas

Opinion

Shifting the Australian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a big, cynical mistake

Australia should focus on playing a positive role in the ongoing Middle East process, rather than auctioning off its foreign policy for the sake of winning the Wentworth byelection, writes Tony Walker.

World

Desperation as aid slow to reach victims of Indonesian tsunami

UPDATED | Desperation is visible everywhere in areas heavily damaged by an earthquake and tsunami, four days after the disaster devastated parts of Indonesia’s central Sulawesi island.

Business

US regulators accuse Tesla's Elon Musk of fraud

US securities regulators have accused Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk of fraud and sought to ban him as an officer of a public company, saying he made “false and misleading” tweets about taking the electric car company private.

World

Comedian Bill Cosby imprisoned over sexual assault

His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, an 81-year-old Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman.

News

Roundup weedkiller could be lethal to bees: research

Bees could be dying as a result of exposure to the world’s most popular weed killer, new research suggests.